top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-25

“Nobody cares about your blog”

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

2 years ago

617 upvotes – 126 comments

“I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”

https://breached.vc/Thread-Selling-Twitter-Data-Breach-400-million-users

2 years ago

510 upvotes – 280 comments

Life Is Short (2016)

http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

2 years ago

466 upvotes – 290 comments

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

2 years ago

413 upvotes – 782 comments

I worked at LastPass as an engineer

https://twitter.com/ejcx_/status/1606428769731878913

2 years ago

412 upvotes – 218 comments

Reverse engineering yet another eBook format

https://mijailovic.net/2022/12/25/hkpropel/

2 years ago

389 upvotes – 86 comments

MIT faculty adopts “Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”

https://twitter.com/thefireorg/status/1606010943309336576

2 years ago

371 upvotes – 673 comments

HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs

https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 70 comments

APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

https://github.com/apitable/apitable

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 78 comments

Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128698

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 176 comments

Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon

https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 304 comments

1k True Fans (2008)

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 139 comments

Ruby 3.2.0

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 64 comments

The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001918

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 174 comments

2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/year-of-linux-desktop/

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 341 comments

AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 400 comments

General guidance when working as a cloud engineer

https://www.lockedinspace.com/posts/001.html

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 147 comments

The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701397109796866

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 437 comments

How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS

https://www.micahwalter.com/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 141 comments

DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-now-blocks-google-sign-in-pop-ups-on-all-sites/

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 82 comments

Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults

https://markuta.com/cracking-lastpass-vaults/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 110 comments

Official NORAD Tracks Santa

https://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 45 comments

Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 143 comments

All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements

https://effectivetypescript.com/2022/12/25/christmas/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 165 comments

“Fun disabled by administrator” (2015)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=462221

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 99 comments

Non-replaceable battery? Not if this proposed EU law passes

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/24/non-replaceable-battery-not-if-this-proposed-eu-law-passes/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 234 comments

Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/21/kickstarter-shut-down-the-campaign-for-ai-porn-group-unstable-diffusion-amid-changing-guidelines/

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 275 comments

Interpreting a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes sounds good

https://mastodon.social/@acb/109567809376185861

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: How to get better at writing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34127742

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34122578

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 98 comments

Donald Knuth’s Christmas Lecture (2022) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6YRqT4Duo

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 14 comments

Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11082

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 81 comments

Source Code for Populous for Windows CE / Dreamcast Released

https://github.com/LemonHaze420/DCPopulous

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 71 comments

The Overlords Finally Showed Up

https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 146 comments

What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap?

https://blog.andygol.co.ua/en/2022/12/24/creating-overture-map-and-future-of-osm/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)

http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 29 comments

Non-ECC memory corrupted my hard drive image [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0itrM7t4l34

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 152 comments

Mental time travel can make us better people

https://nautil.us/how-mental-time-travel-can-make-us-better-people-254241/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 40 comments

Atari 800 Winter Solstice Celebration Demo 2022

https://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2022/happy-holidays-2022.html

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 5 comments

The return of lazy imports for Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/917280/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 88 comments

Eight studies reveal a bias in human imagination

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/things-could-be-better

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130767

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 164 comments

Vint Cerf helped create the Internet on the back of an envelope

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vint-cerf-helped-create-the-internet-on-the-back-of-an-envelope-11671210858

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling

https://pointieststick.com/2022/12/16/this-week-in-kde-wayland-fractional-scaling-oh-and-we-also-fixed-multi-screen/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34131436

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

Moving the Ctrl Key

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 119 comments

Pitch Drop Experiment

https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

X11 Conservancy Project

https://x11cp.org/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Brain circuit that converts spatial goals to escape actions discovered in mice

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/brain-circuit-converts-spatial-goals-escape-actions-discovered

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments

Oligopoly Everywhere

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/oligopoly-everywhere

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments
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